Video: AI and quantum futures: Canadian tech leaders speak at the G7 Privacy Roundtable 2025

Canadian leadership advancing safe and privacy protective innovation

The video starts with a music on a background image of a poster for the 2025 G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities Roundtable beside a Canada flag with the following text on top: Canadian leadership advancing safe and privacy-protective innovation.

Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Philippe Dufresne: Prioritizing privacy helps to support and fuel innovation. When people have confidence that their data is protected and used responsibly, it supports their well-being today and for future generations, while fostering an environment where businesses can thrive, innovate responsibly, and earn public trust.

The delegates from the G7 data protection and privacy authorities, gathered around the table, listen attentively.

Professor Yoshua Bengio, Canadian expert in artificial intelligence: As the AI becomes more and more powerful, we have to ask, how do we align that continued development with the interests of our citizens, with the interests of democracy? Unfortunately, a single country can’t do it alone because of this global nature of both the risks and the benefits. We are thinking of how we can go from the current technology, which has these issues of reliability and trustworthiness, into systems that are both capable and safe. So, it is really important that countries around the world understand these questions, these potential risks, and work together to mitigate them.

Dr. Martin Laforest, Canadian expert on quantum computer: We talk a lot about the quantum computer, and I’m going to tell you that it’s a whole lot more than that. It’s not just the continuation of the digital age that we’re in, but it’s a complete shift into a new era of technology. When it comes to data privacy, there are definitely opportunities of things we can do with quantum technology that cannot be done with digital tech or AI, but it also comes with great threats, which also comes with great solutions. And also, I will argue that those solution needs to be deployed right now.

Commissioner Dufresne: I am delighted to have the opportunity to showcase Canadian leadership in advocating for safe privacy-protective innovation, and the development of trustworthy new technologies.

Text on a white background with music playing: Prioritizing privacy today for a safer tomorrow.

The video ends with the signature of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.